Stats Blog Switcher

Let’s be honest, we know you guys are looking at you stats all day. In fact, as we speak we’re migrating our stats system to a new set of servers to make it even speedier for you to reload all day and keep up with the millions of pageviews you’re all getting.

Our latest improvement to the stats system is pretty simple but we hope you’ll like it anyway. It’s basically a quick way to switch between your different blog stats:

This allows you to switch quickly between your different blog and feed stats for multiple blogs you might have.

As you may have picked up on, we’re trying to make the Dashboard part of the Dashboard more global, allowing you to easily access all your blog information in one logical place.

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A step in the good direction. A couple things I would love to see implemented here:

1. In the stats, I would like to know how many returning visitors I get each day. A table that shows total visitors, first time visitors and returning visitors perhaps.
2. It would be handy if I could switch to my other blog dashboard or, even better (as you say you are going to do), work on both blogs from the same dashboard. Post a new article on blog 1 or 2 from the dashboard, for example, without the need to switch.

Yeah… just what we need, another excuse not to move. “Just a few fewer finger movements per day”, that’s exactly what the doctor told me just the other day. “Really, you’re just not sedentary enough.” Holy crap Matt, when did they get you on the payroll of the Artifical Heart Industrial Complex? Jesus. Take a frigging break, seriously, just a few weeks. Anymore help like this and I’m going to fuse with the freaking keyboard.

Unfortunately, that image is just about what I see; I cannot see the graph results for the last two days, as they are off the page to the right. And I cannot scroll left-right either. I hope you guys get this fixed. I’m a stat junkie.

For those of us with only one blog, it’s looks kind of funny sitting over there pulling the eye left. It shouldn’t be too hard for the code to distinguish between people with only one blog (and omit the switcher) and those with multiple blogs (who could actually use it).

On another stats-related point, I still feel like the stats graphs should baseline at zero, rather than “the lowest number over the last thirty days”.

The current system tends to visually exaggerate changes (making a change of 100 to 200 look like a factor of 100 rather than a factor of 2 change.)

Edward Tufte, in “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” calls this the “lie factor” and warns against it — after pointing to a lot of embarrassing examples in USA Today statshots etc. So, I’d still love to see this change made.

This is a terrific idea. Thanks for putting it together. Am I the only person though who can’t see today’s stats? They’re over there at the far right of the screen and although I can click on the day, the number’s off the screen.

This is one of those things that I wish we had an option to display or not. Since I only have one blog, it is useless to me. And it messes up the display in Mozilla, forcing me to widen the screen to see the actual stats. At the least, couldn’t it be smaller and less obtrusive? Or how about putting it across the top instead of down the side?

a.wordpress.com is our domain that serves avatars. You may see a few other of those single letter subdomains in the next few days, as we’ll put javascript, images, and such on different ones to speed things up.

A slide-bar was added at the bottom and that solved the problem of information on the right side being inaccessible. Thanks. The headings at the top are still competing for the same space, the one overwriting the other.

Great, thanks for adding this feature. I’d love if you could also add the blog-switching feature to the main dashboard itself. I have 5 blogs and right now i have to go ‘View site’ and from there get to my other blogs from the drop-down.